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live to see them finished. He had done his part : the work 

 he had proposed to himself was completed, and he fell 

 peacefully asleep on the 6th of May, 1859. 



Chief Works consulted. — Goethe's ' CEuvres Scientifiques ;' Faivre ; 

 Asa Gray's * Botany ; ' L. Agassiz's * Centenary Address on A. von 

 Humboldt ;' Humboldt's * Cosmos.' 



